List of African countries and dependencies

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This is a list of African countries and dependencies, including the respective capitals, languages, currencies, population,and (dependencies are listed with a blue background).
Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,221,532 km² (11,668,545 sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area, and 20.4% of the total land area.[1With more than 900 million people (as of 2005)[2in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.

Name (official name)	Flag	Capital	Currency	Official languages	Population	Map
Algeria[3(People's Democratic Republic of Algeria)	Flag of Algeria	Algiers	Algerian dinar	Arabic	33,333,216	3
Angola[4(Republic of Angola)	Flag of Angola	Luanda	Kwanza	Portuguese	15,941,000	40
Benin[5 (Republic of Benin)	Flag of Benin	Porto Novo	West African CFA franc	French	8,439,000	24
Botswana[6(Republic of Botswana)	Flag of Botswana	Gaborone	Pula	English, Setswana	1,639,833	46
Burkina Faso[7	Flag of Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	West African CFA franc	French	13,228,000	21
Burundi[8(Republic of Burundi)	Flag of Burundi	Bujumbura	Burundi franc	Kirundi, French, Swahili	7,548,000	38
Cameroon[9(Republic of Cameroon)	Flag of Cameroon	Yaoundé	Central African CFA franc	French, English	17,795,000	26
Canary Islands (Spain)[10	Flag of Canary Islands	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife	Euro	Spanish	1,995,833	6
Cape Verde[11(Republic of Cape Verde)	Flag of Cape Verde	Praia	Cape Verdean escudo	Portuguese	420,979	14a
Central African Republic[12(Central African Republic)	Flag of the Central African Republic	Bangui	Central African CFA franc	Sango, French	4,216,666	27
Ceuta (Spain)[10	Flag of Ceuta	Ceuta	Euro	Spanish	76,861	2a
Chad[13(Republic of Chad)	Flag of Chad	N'Djamena	Central African CFA franc	French, Arabic	10,146,000	11
Comoros[14(Union of the Comoros)	Flag of the Comoros	Moroni	Comorian franc	Arabic, French	798,000	43a
Côte d'Ivoire[15(Republic of Côte d'Ivoire)	Flag of Côte d'Ivoire	Yamoussoukro Abidjan	West African CFA franc	French	17,654,843	20
Democratic Republic of the Congo[16(Democratic Republic of the Congo)	Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa	Congolese franc	French	63,655,000	34
Djibouti[17(Republic of Djibouti)	Flag of Djibouti	Djibouti	Djiboutian Franc	Arabic, French	496,374	29
Egypt[18 (Arab Republic of Egypt)	Flag of Egypt	Cairo	Egyptian Pound	Arabic	80,335,036	5
Equatorial Guinea[19(Republic of Equatorial Guinea)	Flag of Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	Central African CFA franc	Spanish, French, Portuguese	504,000	31
Eritrea[20(State of Eritrea)	Flag of Eritrea	Asmara	Nakfa	None at national level	4,401,000	13
Ethiopia[21(Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia)	Flag of Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Birr	Amharic	75,067,000	28
Gabon[22(Gabonese Republic)	Flag of Gabon	Libreville	Central African CFA franc	French	1,384,000	32
Gambia[23(Republic of The Gambia)	Flag of The Gambia	Banjul	Dalasi	English	1,517,000	15
Ghana[24(Republic of Ghana)	Flag of Ghana	Accra	Ghanaian cedi	English	23,000,000	22
Guinea[25(Republic of Guinea)	Flag of Guinea	Conakry	Guinean franc	French	9,402,000	17
Guinea-Bissau[26(Republic of Guinea-Bissau)	Flag of Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	West African CFA franc	Portuguese	1,586,000	16
Kenya[27(Republic of Kenya)	Flag of Kenya	Nairobi	Kenyan shilling	Swahili, English	34,707,817	36
Lesotho[28(Kingdom of Lesotho)	Flag of Lesotho	Maseru	Loti	Southern Sotho, English	1,795,000	49
Liberia[29(Republic of Liberia)	Flag of Liberia	Monrovia	Liberian dollar	English	3,283,000	19
Libya[30(Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)	Flag of Libya	Tripoli	Libyan dinar	Arabic	6,036,914	4
Madagascar[31(Republic of Madagascar)	Flag of Madagascar	Antananarivo	Malagasy ariary	Malagasy, French, English	18,606,000	44
Madeira (Portugal)[n 4	Flag of Madeira	Funchal	Euro	Portuguese	245,806	1
Malawi[32(Republic of Malawi)	Flag of Malawi	Lilongwe	Malawian kwacha	English, Chichewa	12,884,000	42
Mali[33(Republic of Mali)	Flag of Mali	Bamako	West African CFA franc	French	13,518,000	9
Mauritania[34(Islamic Republic of Mauritania)	Flag of Mauritania	Nouakchott	Mauritanian ouguiya	Arabic	3,069,000	8
Mauritius[35(Republic of Mauritius)	Flag of Mauritius	Port Louis	Mauritian rupee	English	1,219,220	44a
Mayotte[36	Flag of Mayotte	Mamoudzou	Euro	French	186,452	43b
Melilla (Spain)[n 1(Autonomous City of Melilla)	Flag of Melilla	N/A	Euro	Spanish	72,000	2b
Morocco[37(Kingdom of Morocco)	Flag of Morocco	Rabat	Moroccan dirham	Arabic	33,757,175	2
Mozambique[38(Republic of Mozambique)	Flag of Mozambique	Maputo	Mozambican metical	Portuguese	20,366,795	43
Namibia[39 (Republic of Namibia)	Flag of Namibia	Windhoek	Namibian dollar	English	2,031,000	45
Niger[40( Republic of Niger)	Flag of Niger	Niamey	West African CFA franc	French, Hausa	13,957,000	10
Nigeria[41(Federal Republic of Nigeria)	Flag of Nigeria	Abuja	Nigerian naira	English	133,530,000	25
Republic of the Congo[42(Republic of the Congo)	Flag of the Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	Central African CFA franc	French	3,999,000	33
Réunion (France)[n 5	Flag of Réunion	Saint-Denis	Euro	French	793,000	44b
Rwanda[43 (Republic of Rwanda)	Flag of Rwanda	Kigali	Rwandan franc	Kinyarwanda, French, English	7,600,000	37
Saint Helena[44	Flag of Saint Helena	Jamestown	Saint Helenian pound	English	4,250	40b
São Tomé and Príncipe[45 (Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe)	Flag of São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	São Tomé and Príncipe Dobra	Portuguese	157,000	31a
Senegal[46 (Republic of Senegal)	Flag of Senegal	Dakar	West African CFA franc	French	11,658,000	14
Seychelles[47(Republic of Seychelles)	Flag of the Seychelles	Victoria	Seychellois rupee	English, French, Seychellois Creole	80,654	39a
Sierra Leone[48(Republic of Sierra Leone)	Flag of Sierra Leone	Freetown	Leone	English	6,144,562	18
Somalia[49 (Somali Republic)	Flag of Somalia	Mogadishu	Somali shilling	Somali	17,700,000	30
South Africa[50 (Republic of South Africa)	Flag of South Africa	Pretoria (executive) Bloemfontein (judicial) Cape Town (legislative)	South African rand	Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu	47,432,000	48
Sudan[51(Republic of Sudan)	Flag of Sudan	Khartoum	Sudanese pound	Arabic, English	36,992,490	12
Swaziland[52 (Kingdom of Swaziland)	Flag of Swaziland	Lobamba (royal and legislative) Mbabane (administrative)	Lilangeni	English, Swati	1,032,000	50
Tanzania[53(United Republic of Tanzania)	Flag of Tanzania	Dar es Salaam (traditional capital) Dodoma (legislative)	Tanzanian shilling	Swahili, English	37,849,133	39
Togo[54(Togolese Republic)	Flag of Togo	Lomé	West African CFA franc	French	6,100,000	23
Tunisia[55 (Tunisian Republic)	Flag of Tunisia	Tunis	Tunisian dinar	Arabic	10,102,000	3
Uganda[56( Republic of Uganda)	Flag of Uganda	Kampala	Ugandan shilling	English, Swahili	27,616,000	35
Western Sahara (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)[n 7	Flag of Western Sahara	El Aaiún (Moroccan), Bir Lehlou (temporary)[n 8	Moroccan dirham	N/A.[n 9	266,000	7
Zambia[57(Republic of Zambia)	Flag of Zambia	Lusaka	Zambian kwacha	English	11,668,000	41
Zimbabwe[58(Republic of Zimbabwe)	Flag of Zimbabwe	Harare	Zimbabwean dollar	Shona, Ndebele, English	13,010,000	47